David Conrad (voice, guitar) got an intensive education in songwriting over four decades as a bassist accompanying great singers, writers and bands including Phoebe Snow, Solomon Burke, Tom Rush, Chuck Berry, Dave Van Ronk, Orphan, Rufus Thomas, Sylvain Sylvain, Jonathan Edwards, Marc Ribot, Black 47, Hank Thompson, Darlene Love, and Delbert McClinton. He currently records and performs with Davis Raines and the Band of a Thousand Names, and other Nashville-based artists.
Rebecca Weiner Tompkins (violin, voice), is also a member of Life in a Blender and Maynard and the Musties, and has recorded and performed with Patti Smith, Mark Huff, Luke Powers, Afton Wolfe, Julie Christensen, Chuck Mead, Jim Malone and The Piney Hearts, Emily Duff, Scott McClatchy, Sergio Webb, Ricko Donovan, Tom Mason and the Blue Buccaneers, Alex Sniderman, The Nu-Sonics, John Egenes, Chief, The Sometime Boys, Karen and The Sorrows, The Menthol Kings, Chris Rael, Stellan Wahlstrom, Mark Donato's Canoeful of Strangers, Standpipe, Ian Roure, Eddie Skuller, Zane Campbell, Stanley Keach and Bluegrassachusetts, The Ming Dynasty Ramblers, and The Tuna Canyon Boys among many others. In 2019 her poetry collection, King of the Fireflies, was published by Sensitive Skin Press.
Conrad y Skordalia's first album, A Silo Filled With Birds, was co-produced by David Conrad and J.D. Foster, and includes performances by Marc Ribot, Todd Turkisher, and others. Their second album, The Moment Before Waking, was released on December 15th, 2021. Conrad y Skordalia have based out of Nashville since 2017, and perform regularly in the area both as acoustic duo and full electric band.